MANAGING RISK

How will today’s decisions look a decade from now?

Guy Carpenter has provided reinsurance brokerage services since 1922 and continues to serve some of the firm’s original clients. One of the roles we play for all our clients is helping them anticipate and navigate change.

Reinsurance in a strategic context. Our conversation begins with client goals and challenges. We work to understand your broad financial landscape before making recommendations for a specific solution. We explore potential opportunities as well as the challenges at hand – and those that may be lurking on the horizon. Then we work through the data – oceans of it – and by combining it with the industry’s most sophisticated analytics, develop a comprehensive view of the risk and the best way to transfer it in line with your goals and objectives.

A superior result is our business model. New clients are often surprised by the depth of the team we assign to their business. We bring expertise from wherever it resides, whenever it is needed, regardless of our client’s size or geographic footprint: Every client gets the A Team every time.

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The Guy Carpenter Analytics group helps you anticipate and respond to catastrophic events in real time.

Modeling your portfolio. With an unbiased and longstanding history of using catastrophe models to help our customers make strategic decisions about retaining, mitigating, and transferring risk, we evaluate data and the models, explain divergent model answers, and offer alternative approaches to ensure our customers are the best informed.

CAT-i & RISK-i Reports consolidate the best available information on natural and man-made events likely to result in significant losses. They summarize the situation, map the impact, provide damage estimates and track the flow of claims.

The practice includes coverage for growing crops, forestry and plantations, livestock and animal mortality, aquaculture and related enterprises. The susceptibility of crops to weather-related perils calls for sophisticated modeling solutions to quantify the risk from these perils. In addition to quantifying weather risks from a reinsurance perspective for clients, Guy Carpenter also assists clients with underwriting and pricing tools that help maximize the profitability of their primary portfolios. Where models are insufficient, or lacking altogether, we have developed our own, including a proprietary fund allocation model and an intra-season predictive model for the U.S.

The Agriculture specialty is also actively involved in collaborating with academic institutions to develop innovative and efficient risk transfer tools for the farming community worldwide.

Guy Carpenter’s tool suite enables us to estimate losses for agriculture books of business, and model risks in creative ways, which in turn enables the development of better reinsurance solutions for our clients.

To learn how we can help you improve the performance of your agriculture portfolio, please contact:

Guy Carpenter’s Aviation and Aerospace practice is widely regarded as one of the best in the world, delivering the most advanced technologies – and vast practical experience.

In a field where pilots’ expertise is measured by time in type, the Guy Carpenter team has hundreds of years’ experience in every category of flight coverage: balloon, light aircraft, corporate jet, airline, rotor wing, aerospace manufacturers, and satellites, both during launch and in orbit. Guy Carpenter’s unique scale, scope and specialization enable us to create bespoke reinsurance solutions for clients of any size, in any geography.

Clients are supported by analytics and contract experts who also specialize in aviation. One-of-a-kind analytic engines are powered by the industry’s most comprehensive loss database and exhaustive aircraft-specific data, including usage, routing structures, passenger mix and valuations.

To learn how our team’s unique experience can work for you, please contact:

Our trademark combination of fresh thinking and deep experience in every market has made our team a first choice for start-ups as well as industry leaders around the world. Our London-based team builds both traditional and innovative solutions for single project and annual policy exposures. We place a full spectrum of treaty reinsurance programs, specifically tailored for each individual client, including excess of loss and pro rata treaties in addition to facultative support when needed.

Advanced engineering modeling tools and analytical skills provided through GC Analytics® have enabled us to develop an enhanced understanding of engineering and construction project risks over time. Exposure outputs from these tools can be utilized by catastrophe models and other financial tools to spotlight precisely the effect reinsurance can have on capital (economic, regulatory, Lloyd's RBC) and illuminate the impact that various reinsurance structures can have on underlying pricing, profitability, and risk.

To learn more about how our forward-looking solutions can work for you, please contact:

Guy Carpenter’s Credit, Bond and Political Risk practice is a global leader in these classes. The team has over 100 years combined experience advising a global client base, providing vital support through the fluid landscape and uncertainties of established and emerging markets.

Our clients benefit from our unique market awareness, born of continuous dialog with all international reinsurers. Guy Carpenter is itself organized for client benefit, with critical know-how shared across every Guy Carpenter office worldwide. We deliberately spread our renewal dates throughout the year, so every client enjoys our complete attention. We pride ourselves on providing genuine value added service to our clients.

Our specialized knowledge, analytic skills and largest market share provide our clients with superior reinsurance intermediation, giving them the confidence they need to grow in a volatile environment. We engineer one-of-a-kind solutions for each client, calibrated exactly to business goals. Through our diverse backgrounds we deliver innovative risk management and capital relief solutions to our clients. We have a long list of satisfied clients for whom our innovative and bespoke product designs have proved optimal. We would be happy to provide you with their contact details for reference purposes.

To learn more about how Guy Carpenter can help you thrive in a dynamic environment, please contact:

Guy Carpenter’s Cyber Solutions Specialty team helps our clients position themselves for years of profitable growth in this relatively young market.

Guy Carpenter has pioneered and expanded cyber liability solutions since 1999. Our comprehensive knowledge of the space, its market dynamics, and our diversified client base within it, enable us to assist our clients at every phase of product development and reinsurance placement. We can help you add cyber coverage to your existing product suite through our relationships with best-in-class third-party providers, and meet the challenges of obtaining comprehensive reinsurance coverage for a systemic event. Our MetaRisk® capital modeling tool has been customized to consider the systemic and attritional loss exposures inherent in cyber liability.

Customized solutions help Guy Carpenter clients differentiate themselves to reinsurers in a crowded marketplace, thereby realizing better pricing and terms. In addition to customized representation, Guy Carpenter is also innovating reinsurance design. For example, our revolutionary reinsurance structure streamlines recoveries, reduces ceded premiums and expands the available reinsurance market for our clients. An exclusive environmental loss database and powerful analytics allow us to model an expanding range of risks, providing clients with a deeper understanding of their portfolios – and possibilities.

Guy Carpenter’s unique market knowledge is a potent asset for carriers entering the environmental field; and our client base provides a global platform for those seeking to grow. We routinely facilitate partnerships that help our clients round out their product offerings and reach potential new customers.

To learn how our team’s unique experience can work for you, please contact:

Guy Carpenter’s E&S Specialty is a team of dedicated specialists that deliver E&S-specific business intelligence, customized market analysis and peer group data to help clients gain a competitive advantage and achieve profitable growth.

The excess and surplus lines (E&S) insurance carriers in the United States provide an essential market for exposures that fall outside the standard market, especially the most hazardous risks and emerging perils. Guy Carpenter has been the leading E&S reinsurance broker in the U.S. for decades and our knowledge and experience in this market is unmatched. Guy Carpenter’s Excess & Surplus Lines Specialty Practice helps a wide range of E&S providers develop and implement innovative strategies to best underwrite and manage the unique high-hazard risks of this segment.

The practice provides clients with dedicated sources of stable capital, including Guy Carpenter’s Umbrella and Property Facultative facilities. We also deliver integrated point-of-sale underwriting capabilities and growth analysis. With Guy Carpenter’s Rating Advisory team, our practice will provide guidance and solutions that address all A.M. Best and BCAR-related issues now facing clients.

To learn more about how the Guy Carpenter E&S Specialty Practice is uniquely positioned to provide E&S insurers with the strategic advice they need to reach their full growth and profit potential, please contact:

Guy Carpenter’s Casualty team possesses the technical sophistication and market savvy to create value for our clients wherever they choose to do business.

Guy Carpenter has a profound understanding of how different casualty lines and markets behave. We equip our clients with both the granular knowledge and strategic insights they need to manage capital and achieve profitable growth. Our broking and actuarial specialists are the most technically proficient in the field, with unmatched success in structuring complex casualty transactions. We can provide:

Guy Carpenter’s Healthcare & Life Specialty team offers superior market knowledge and technical resources that have proven to be of tremendous value to our clients.

The U.S. healthcare insurance environment is undergoing rapid and profound change. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act will subject payers and providers to a variety of new exposures and market challenges. New healthcare delivery models are also in vogue in an effort to coordinate care, improve quality, and reduce costs. Are you prepared for these developments?

With the lines between coverages converging and new exposures emerging, Guy Carpenter’s Healthcare & Life Specialty Practice is singularly focused on this evolving and specialized market, and is committed to offering clients seamless and innovative coverage solutions across the health, healthcare, life and accident continuum.

-Healthcare provider roles have been redefined, with coverage lines being blurred as they begin to assume financial risk as reimbursements shift from volume-based, to quality of care and pay for performance

-Specialty benefits insurers are reacting to tremendous potential changes in how benefits are sold and distributed to insured groups, schools, associations and consumers

-Disability and Life insurers are facing increased competition and pressure on margins while exploring emerging products and new distribution channels including private exchanges

We support all of our clients with world-class experts in the many risks that drive their business results. Our solutions, together with the world’s most advanced analytics, help clients face a rapidly changing risk landscape with confidence.

To learn more about how we can individualize and localize solutions so efficiently, please contact:

Guy Carpenter’s Marine and Energy specialty group offers clients an integrated global platform, for more options, more control – and a clearer picture of their business.

Guy Carpenter delivers innovative solutions for all proportional and non-proportional treaties across the Marine & Energy sector. Our global analytical platform enables us to quantify the performance of different solutions across all classes and territories, and measure them against specific business metrics. This analytic consistency helps clients predict portfolio performance with confidence, including assessment of accumulated exposures.

Account and claims management are entirely in-house: Your business never leaves our hands. Tight integration ensures that the full weight of Guy Carpenter is brought to bear should any issues arise. The practice is organized by operating regions: UK Marine, placing London Market Excess Loss (LMX) and global retro; US Marine, responsible for our U.S. clients; and International, placing business emanating from Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Caribbean and Canada. Although diverse geographically, the practice is run as one global unit.

To learn more about the advantages of an integrated global approach, please contact:

Guy Carpenter’s Mutual Company Specialty is a team of seasoned professionals who are dedicated to helping mutual company clients protect capital, support profitable growth, and maximize financial results.

Mutual insurers can benefit from Guy Carpenter’s unmatched services and long-term commitment to this market. We help our clients consider innovative reinsurance alternatives and obtain the most efficient reinsurance program. Additionally, we have the expertise to help our clients maximize results, manage their portfolios, develop new products, identify valuable opportunities in new lines and territories, manage rating agency and regulatory relationships, and expand their producer network into new geographic regions.

Mutual insurance companies are encountering a more competitive marketplace as they work to improve results while at that the same time seeking to expand their businesses. In an evolving market, Guy Carpenter is uniquely positioned to provide clients with the strategic advice they need to reach their full growth and profit potential. Our product offering for mutual insurance companies ranges from our Regional Account Program (RAP) and Umbrella and Property Facultative Facilities to unique tools such as “Point-of-Sale,” BenchmaRQ SM, Market Entry, and Rating Agency Advisory.

By way of example, our LEAD® Public Directors & Officers liability model is the best available and helps clients with both risk selection and portfolio management.

A dedicated team within our practice can help you assess exposures in cyber security and privacy breaches. As no other organization, Guy Carpenter understands the Cloud’s risks for insureds – and its opportunities for carriers.

To learn more about how Guy Carpenter can help you build competitive advantage, please contact:

The Property team integrates risk management and advisory services across the full range of risk transfer solutions, including insurance-linked securities, collateralized solutions and index products as well as traditional reinsurance placements. In-market teams in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific tailor innovative local solutions, drawing on industry-leading business intelligence and quantitative modeling tools. Guy Carpenter’s ability to analyze the enormous volume of property transactions around the world is a business advantage for our clients wherever they choose to do business.

Guy Carpenter clients benefit from the industry’s most advanced market assessment process and specialized expertise in critical disciplines, including industrial risk, commercial risk, excess and surplus lines, direct and facultative reinsurance, and residential exposures. We are also the world’s leading government pools intermediary, applying this global expertise to directly benefit our government pools clients as well as quantifying the impact these entities can have on the broader marketplace.

To learn how we can help you achieve profitable growth in key classes of business in virtually any market, please contact:

Guy Carpenter’s Structured Solutions Specialty team has the technical expertise to deliver unique solutions – and the sophistication to optimize their value on your balance sheet.

New financial instruments have expanded the toolkit for innovative risk transfer solutions. The team analyzes risk, structures/designs transactions and quantifies the impact of the solution on your company’s financial statements and capital models such as the AM Best BCAR model and the NAIC RBC model. The modeling we perform helps you determine the optimal solution to achieve your financial motivation and remain within your risk tolerance thresholds.

We help our clients secure optimal terms and conditions on quota shares, stop loss treaties, loss portfolio transfers, adverse development covers, single and multi-year excess of loss covers and a host of other vehicles. The team has designed structured risk contracts to achieve goals including but not limited to capital optimization, reduced uncertainty in insurance underwriting results, mitigation of earnings volatility, company experience based pricing, management of increased retentions, addressing changes/gaps in underlying reinsurance, providing reserve protection, and achievement of capital and rating agency objectives. The team coalesces the combined resources of Guy Carpenter to provide the best advice and solutions. For example, we work with our rating agency advisory group to ensure that every transaction meets the particular challenge at hand and long-term capital goals.

To learn more about how we can help you optimize success in a dynamic financial and regulatory environment, please contact:

Guy Carpenter’s Surety and Fidelity Specialty team can help you see more deeply into the drivers of profitability and risk in your portfolio to improve performance.

Actuaries who specialize in surety full time and the industry’s premier exposure modeling tools help Guy Carpenter clients minimize risk and maximize returns in global reinsurance and capital markets. Our actuaries work directly with reinsurers to design innovative programs that create competitive advantage for clients.

Uniquely among intermediaries, our broking team has extensive underwriting experience at both the primary and reinsurance levels of the business: A better understanding of our clients’ business goals enables us to engineer solutions that are strategic as well as cost-efficient. We provide our clients with timely analysis of economic trends operating in the surety industry, exhaustive market intelligence, and peer comparison studies that help them navigate a dynamic environment.

To learn more about what the world’s leading surety team can do for your portfolio, please contact:

The terror practice draws on expertise from Guy Carpenter specialists in property, workers compensation, accident and health, cyber risk and others as needed to tailor comprehensive terror and political violence solutions for our clients. In the United States, we are helping clients structure and secure the largest amount of available terrorism reinsurance capacity to help withstand any potential changes to TRIPRA (Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act).

To learn more about evolving terror and political violence risks and state-of-the-art solutions, please contact:

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*Securities or investments, as applicable, are offered in the United States through GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities Corp., a US registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/NFA/SIPC. Main Office: 1166 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. Phone: (212) 345-5000. Securities or investments, as applicable, are offered in the European Union by GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities (Europe) Ltd., which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Reinsurance products are placed through qualified affiliates of Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC. MMC Securities Corp., MMC Securities (Europe) Ltd. and Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC are affiliates owned by Marsh & McLennan Companies. This communication is not intended as an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any security, financial instrument, reinsurance or insurance product.